SIPCRACK(1)
โจ SIPCRACK โจ (section 1 of the general commands manual, bestie)
okay so welcome to the sipcrack page, and yes we're doing this whole thing in the group chat voice because you deserve to actually understand it ๐
๐ธ NAME ๐ธ
sipcrack โ a whole suite of tools that sniffs and cracks the digest authentications inside the SIP protocol. it's giving hacker-girl summer, no cap ๐ต๏ธโ๏ธโจ
๐ SYNOPSIS ๐
sipcrack [options] <dump_file>
that's it, that's the whole vibe. options, then the dump file. periodt ๐
๐ฆ DESCRIPTION ๐ฆ
okay so first things first, this manual page documents sipcrack briefly. short and sweet, we love her ๐
so Session Initiation Protocol (SIP, iykyk) is a protocol developed by the IETF MMUSIC Working Group, and it's a proposed standard for initiating, modifying, and terminating an interactive user session that involves multimedia elements like video, voice, instant messaging, online games, and virtual reality. yes bestie, all of that ๐๐ฎ๐น
in November 2000, SIP was accepted as a 3GPP signaling protocol and became a permanent element of the IMS architecture. iconic behavior honestly ๐ it's one of the leading signalling protocols for Voice over IP, right alongside H.323. in most VOIP solutions, SIP is what's used to authenticate the SIP client. the protocol is documented inside the RFC at www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3261.txt โ go read it, it's literally right there ๐
now the good part: SIPcrack is a SIP login sniffer/cracker that contains 2 programs:
sipdumpโ captures the digest authenticationsipcrackโ bruteforces the hash using a wordlist or standard input
let me break those down fr fr:
sipdumpdumps SIP digest authentications. if a login is found, the sniffed login is written to the dump file. seesipdump -hfor options ๐ซถsipcrackbruteforces the user's password with the dump file thatsipdumpgenerated. if a password is found, the sniffed and cracked login gets updated in the dump file. seesipcrack -hfor options โจ
๐ OPTIONS ๐
a summary of options is included below. short list, big energy.
-sโ use stdin for passwords ๐ธ-w wordlistโ file containing all the passwords to try ๐-p numโ print the cracking process every n passwords (only works with-w)
โ ๏ธ ATTENTION: -p slows down heavily. like, dramatically. the drama is real ๐ proceed with caution bestie.
๐ฅ EXAMPLE ๐ฅ
sipdump -i eth0 logins.dump
sipcrack -w mywordlist.txt logins.dump
sniff it, then crack it. main character energy, one after the other ๐
๐ SEE ALSO ๐
๐ AUTHOR ๐
sipcrack was written by Martin J. Muench <mjm@codito.de> ๐ซถ
this manual page was written by Sebastian Castillo Builes <castillobuiles@gmail.com>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others). so generous, we stan ๐
and that's a wrap bestie! this page is from the general commands manual, dated April 29, 2008 โ yeah she's vintage, and vintage is iconic. go forth and be safe with your own networks, mwah ๐ โจ๐ธ
๐ฆ where this page comes from
- debian bookworm: sipcrack 0.2-4+b1 ยท BSD-3-Clause
- debian trixie: sipcrack 0.2-4+b2 ยท BSD-3-Clause
- ubuntu jammy: sipcrack 0.2-4build1 ยท BSD-3-Clause
- ubuntu noble: sipcrack 0.2-4build3 ยท BSD-3-Clause
- ubuntu questing: sipcrack 0.2-4build3
- ubuntu resolute: sipcrack 0.2-4build4 ยท BSD-3-Clause
- ubuntu stonking: sipcrack 0.2-4build5 ยท BSD-3-Clause
- ๐ girlified by deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash on : a language model's rewrite of the original, under its terms